They are making him a target

Paint a bullseye on his back, why don't you?

Lassana Bathily

France security: Chechens arrested over alleged attack plan

Says the BBC story,

Meanwhile, a Malian employee who helped shoppers during the supermarket siege by Coulibaly is due to receive French nationality on Tuesday.

Lassana Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim, hid customers inside a basement cold store when the gunman stormed the shop and took people hostage.

He will receive a French passport at a ceremony in his honour after his application was fast-tracked.

It comes after a petition was circulated calling for him to be granted citizenship.

He has lived in France for nine years and applied for citizenship last year.

If I were he, I wouldn't have wanted the publicity.

The passport, yes, of course.

But not the publicity.

But it serves the turn of the government, determined to reinforce the message to the French public that the problem isn't with all Muslims and to the Muslims of the world that the French government doesn't think it's a problem with all Muslims.